Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24

III lit LIZ il~tliAt liIIAt w y > IL tiIOChlDE
at the Front door aud t~o ruff ans
broke IN To despoii that household. No
sooner bad they come over the door
sill than the armed guest, who had
primed his piece and charged it with
slugs, met them, and telling the woman
TO stand back. | am happy to say.
dropped the two assault ny despsra-
does dead AT his feet. Well, now there
are no bandits prowling around TO
destroy oul houses; but how often it is
that we find those that have been our
guests become our defenders. We
gave them shelter frat. and then after
wards in the great conflicts of life they
fought for our reputation; they fought
for u property; they fought for our
soul.
THE REWARD OF CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL
Another reward that comes from
Christian hospitality is in the assurance
that we shall have hospitality SHOWN to
Us and to ours. In the upturnings of this
life, who knows in what city or what
and we may be thrown, and how mucn
we may need an open doorP There
may come no such crisis to us, but our
children may be thrown into some
such strait He who is in a Christian
manner hospital, has a free pass
through all Christendom. II may be
that you will have need been dead fifty
years before any such stress shall come
upon one of your descendants; but do
| You not suppose that God can remem-
ber fifty years? And the knuckle of
the grandchild will be heard against the
door If some stranger, and that door
will open; and il will he talked over in
heaven. and it will be said: THAT
mans grandfather, fifty years ago gave
shelter to Il stranger, and now a strang-
er's door is open for n grandson"
Among the Greeks, after entertain
ing and being entertained, they take a
piece of lead and cut it in TWO, and the
host takes one half of the piece Of lead
and the gue.t takes she other half as
they part. These two pieces OF lead
are handed down from generation to
generation, and from family to family;
and after "a while, perhaps one of the
families in want or in trouble go out
with this piece of lead and find the
other family with the corresponding
piece Of lead, and no sooner is the tai
ly completed than the old hospitality
is aroused, and eternal friendship
pledged. So the memory of
CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY
will 90 down from generation to gen.
Grafton, and from family to family,
and the tally will never be lost, neither
n this world nor the world to come.
Mark this: the day viii come when
we will all be turned out of doors,
without any exception - barefoot,
bare-head, no water in the canteen, no
bread in the haversack. and we will 60
in that way into the future world. And
| wonder if eternal hospitalities will
| open before us, and if we will be re-
ceived TITO EVERLASTING habitationsP
FraEcis F~rescobald was q rich Italian,
and he was very merciful and very
hospItable. One day an Englishman
by the name of Thomas Cromwell ap
peared at his door asking for shelter
and aims. which were cheerfully rem
dered. Frescobald afterward lost all
his property, became very poor, and
wandered up into England; and one
day he saw a procession passing. and
10! it was the lord chancellor of En-
gland; and 10! the lord chancellor of
England was
THOMAS CROMWELL,
the very man whom he had once be-
friended down in Italy. The lord
chance Tor, at the first glance of Fresco-
balu, recognized him, and dismounted
from his carriage, threw his arms
around him and embraced him. paid
his debts. invited him to the house, and
said: Here are ten pieces of money
to pay for the bread you gave me, and
here are ten pieces of money to pro-
vide for the horse you loaned me, and
here are four bags, in each of which
are four hundred ducats. Take them
and be we'll" So it will be at last
with us. If We entertain Christ in the
person of His disciples in this world,
when we pass up into the next coun-
try, we will meet Christ in a regal pro-
cession, and He will pour all the wealth
of heaven into our lap, ard open be-
fore us everlasting hespitalities. And,
q, how tame are the richest entertain
ments we can give on earth compared
with the regal munificence which Christ
will display before our souls in heaven!
| was reading the account which
Thomas Fuller gives of the en-
tertainment provided by George Neville.
Among other things, for that banquet
they hao three hundred quarters of
wheat. one hundred and four tons of
wine eighty oxen, three thousand Ca
pons two hundred cranes, two hundred
kids, four thousand pigeons, four
thousand rabbits, two huodred and
four nitterns, two hundred pheasants,
i've hundred partrides, four hundred
PLAYER, one hundred quail, n hundred
curlewS, iii,een hundred hot pasties,
four thousand cold venison pasties,
four thousand custards,--the Earl OF
Warwick acting us steward, and servi-
tors one thous and. q, what
GRAND FEAST
was that! but her compare it with the
provision which God has made for us